MT Launcher is a tool for launching products such as MT Canvus and MT Showcase.
It displays as a menu on your video wall and comprises a series of tiles that
users can tap to launch the required product.

When used in conjunction with features such as the Exit Showcase widget in MT
Showcase, MT Launcher provides a quick and easy method for switching between
MultiTaction products. It also provides logging functional ity and monitors
product processes, restarting them if they crash.

MT Launcher is included in the MultiTaction base image . Other customers must
install MT Launcher manually. You must then configure MT Launcher plus any
pipelines that you want to include.

MT Launcher menu. This example shows tiles for (1) MT Canvus, (2) MT
Showcase and (3) Exit tile. If a product is configured to launch
automatically when MT Launcher starts, a countdown timer (4) shows how long
before the product launches.

Note

The Exit tile is displayed by default. However, you can hide this
tile, if required. (MT Launcher is designed to provide end-users
with a simple method for launching products. You may not want to
provide end-users with a simple button to exit to the desktop from
MT Launcher.)

A pipeline refers to the set of processes that are collectively required to
launch a MultiTaction product such as MT Showcase or MT Canvus. These
MultiTaction products now have built-in compatibility with MT Launcher and ship
with the configuration files required by MT Launcher.

On Ubuntu application computers, you can install MT Launcher from an
installation package or by using the apt utility. On Windows application
computers, you must download and run the MT Launcher installer. See
Install MT Launcher.

Configure MT Launcher

MT Launcher is designed to operate out-of-the-box, with minimal
configuration. But if you want to customize features or behavior, you can
configure MT Launcher by editing custom versions of the main configuration
file, launcher.ini, and the pipeline configuration files for individual
products. See Configure MT Launcher.